by Wendy Widder | Sep 21, 2014 | Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
I keep thinking the next post will (finally) get us into Daniel 7. But then I think of something else that I should talk about first. Today’s “something else” is a big picture view of chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10–12. I could just have said “chapters 7–12,” but that would...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 7, 2014 | Aramaic, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
A nerdy friend once suggested I get a tattoo (wait, would this disqualify him from being nerdy?) that says “I heart Daniel,” and, from the trenches of commentary writing, I have to say Daniel is the man who gets most of my time these days. Though, let’s be clear: I’m...
by Wendy Widder | Aug 25, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
That’s not one of my most creative titles for a blog post, but at least it’s clear. No luring in disinterested readers today… We’re trying to get a handle on the strange (to us) beast that is apocalyptic literature. It might be easiest to describe it by...
by Wendy Widder | Aug 10, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
My newsfeed these days is checkered with horrific stories of suffering people, many of them brothers and sisters in Christ, in the Middle East. And just when I can’t imagine how it could get any worse, the next story appears. It’s horrifying. It’s heartbreaking....
by Wendy Widder | Jul 20, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, The Book of Daniel
All right. It’s time. We’ve been merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily making our way through the first half of Daniel, loving such well-told stories as the fiery furnace and the lions’ den. But the current changes when we arrive at chapter 7, and we’ll be paddling...
by Wendy Widder | Jul 6, 2014 | Apocalyptic literature, Daniel 7, How to read the Bible, The Book of Daniel
I started warning you early about the second half of Daniel (and by “early” I mean within the first month of this blog’s life), and now that we’ve finally arrived, I’m reposting something I said way back then just to get things started… — I’m teaching Daniel to...
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